Bannon, Sanders, and an Archbishop Unite Against AI Risk
A Washington conference drew an unlikely coalition warning AI may cause human extinction.
The Pro-Human Assembly met in Washington on September 15, 2026, one week after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned and went public with fears that AI could cause human extinction. The Free Press reports the conference drew an unusually eclectic coalition: Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, the Archbishop of San Francisco, and Ashley Judd, all organized around the same existential concern.
The coalition is the story. Extinction risk used to be a niche concern among alignment researchers. When it pulls Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders onto the same stage, it has crossed into mass politics. Regulators and operators should note who is now in the room.
Watch whether this coalition converts conference energy into legislative pressure. The signal is not the conference. The signal is whether this odd alliance produces a bill, a hearing, or a mandate that operators have to price.
Analysis
Capability is not the issue on this stage. The issue is who controls it, and that question now belongs to every political tribe with a grievance.
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